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AI is changing how we build software. Are we thinking long term?
From monoliths vs. microservices to testing, requirements, and training junior engineers, AI-driven development raises architectural questions we can’t ignore.
🎧 Listen to the #InfoQ podcast with Joy Ebertz: https://www.infoq.com/podcasts/what-really-mean-program-ai/
The $15 Billion Vanity Metric 📉💸
Companies are throwing millions at AI purely because CEOs are staring at AI leaderboards - without knowing what they're actually building.
"If you weren't spending money, something must have been wrong."
🔗 Watch now: https://www.infoq.com/presentations/ai-cloud-cost-economics/
#AIagents bring new risks to production. Are engineering teams ready?
3 challenges stand out:
🔹 AI fails by producing convincing inaccuracies, not just crashes.
🔹 Coding agents generate code faster than humans can review it.
🔹 Sensitive data can leak through prompts, context windows, and retrieved documents.
Read the full InfoQ webinar write-up 👉 https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/10/ai-systems-production/
🚀 3 engineering deep-dives to level up your week:
📖 READ: Cloudflare’s Vite+ hits 1.0 (GitLab CI support, hooks, tsup migration)
[🔗 https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/10/cloudflare-viteplus-stable/]
🍿 WATCH: Netflix’s ontology-driven observability (Enterprise-scale knowledge graphs)
[🔗 https://www.infoq.com/presentations/netflix-observability-aiops-ontology-scale/]
🎧 LISTEN: What does it really mean to program with AI? (Joy Ebertz & Michael Stiefel)
[🔗 https://www.infoq.com/podcasts/what-really-mean-program-ai/]
👇 Which one are you checking out first?
#InfoQ #SoftwareEngineering #AI #Netflix #Cloudflare #SoftwareArchitecture #EngineeringCulture
Tokens got 1000% cheaper, yet enterprise AI spend is up 222%. Are teams ready for the real bill? 💸
Erik Peterson breaks down the hidden economics of AI engineering & the road to autonomous cloud by 2028:
➡️ The tokenmaxxing myth
➡️ Cost-to-build vs. cost-to-serve
➡️ Unit economics over vanity KPIs
🔗 Watch now: https://www.infoq.com/presentations/ai-cloud-cost-economics/
#FinOps #SoftwareEngineering #CloudComputing #GenerativeAI #InfoQ
80% AI adoption wasn’t enough for Duolingo.
How did it reach 100%?
➡️ Teach engineers AI’s strengths and weaknesses
➡️ Embed AI agents into daily workflows
➡️ Make AI a natural part of engineering
🔗 Watch now: https://www.infoq.com/presentations/duolingo-ai-literacy-code-review/
AI doubled Spotify’s code output. Can its delivery pipeline keep up?
Monthly merged code changes jumped from 8K to 17K. Now, Spotify is rethinking testing, rollback safeguards, deployment timing, observability, and workload prioritization to keep delivery stable.
🔗 Read the full story on InfoQ: https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/10/spotify-ai-quality-controls/
AWS enhances Amazon EventBridge with shared event buses across accounts, ordered delivery, event replay, content-based deduplication, and simplified subscriber management.
The update also introduces publisher/subscriber-based pricing.
🔗 Learn more: https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/10/aws-enhanced-eventbridge-buses/
Is mandatory code review DEAD in the age of AI?
2-week sprints feel too long. Reviewing every line of code isn’t sustainable.
Hannah Foxwell explains why software teams need to rethink peer review - and bring the joy back to engineering.
🔗 Watch the full video [transcript included] – https://www.infoq.com/presentations/agentic-dev-teams/
Choosing the wrong data layout can hurt lakehouse performance.
This InfoQ article compares Liquid Clustering, Z-Ordering, and partitioning across 4 Delta Lake workloads, uncovering 2 undocumented failure modes that could already be affecting production systems.
🔗 Read now: https://www.infoq.com/articles/liquid-clustering-lakehouse-layout/
It’s been a busy week in the #Java ecosystem!
Highlights include:
➤ OpenJDK JEPs Proposed to Target for JDK 28; Lazy Constants elevated to Candidate status; the GA releases of Apache Grails 8.0 and Open Liberty 20.0.0.10; point releases of TornadoVM, Infinispan, LangChain4j and Spock; and a maintenance release of GlassFish.
🔗 #InfoQ News Roundup: https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/10/java-news-roundup-oct05-2026/